Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 5:17
Every year, I push myself to do something different - and push the boundaries a little bit more.
— Gretchen Bleiler
I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
— John Piper
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Congratulate yourself if you have broken the monotony of a conventional age
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson